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PRESERVATION OF LOG-CONCAVITY AND LOG-CONVEXITY UNDER OPERATORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2020

Wanwan Xia,
Tiantian Mao and
Taizhong HuOpen the ORCID record for Taizhong Hu[Opens in a new window]
Wanwan Xia
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China; School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211816, China E-mail: xiaww@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Tiantian Mao
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China E-mail: tmao@ustc.edu.cn; thu@ustc.edu.cn
Taizhong Hu
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China E-mail: tmao@ustc.edu.cn; thu@ustc.edu.cn
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Log-concavity [log-convexity] and their various properties play an increasingly important role in probability, statistics, operations research and other fields. In this paper, we first establish general preservation theorems of log-concavity and log-convexity under operator $\phi \longmapsto T(\phi , \theta )=\mathbb {E}[\phi (X_\theta )]$, θ ∈ Θ, where Θ is an interval of real numbers or an interval of integers, and the random variable $X_\theta$ has a distribution function belonging to the family $\{F_\theta , \theta \in \Theta \}$ possessing the semi-group property. The proofs are based on the theory of stochastic comparisons and weighted distributions. The main results are applied to some special operators, for example, operators occurring in reliability, Bernstein-type operators and Beta-type operators. Several known results in the literature are recovered.

Keywords

bernstein-type operatorbeta-type operatorgamma processpoisson processreliability propertiesrenewal processsemi-group propertystochastic orderweighted distribution

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 2021, pp. 451 - 464
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© Cambridge University Press 2020

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